By Scott J. Meiners, Steward T. A. Pickett, Mary L. Cadenasso

A lot of what's thought of traditional knowledge approximately succession isn't really as transparent lower because it is mostly believed. but, the significance of succession in ecology is undisputed because it bargains a true perception into the dynamics and constitution of all plant groups. half monograph and half conceptual treatise, An Integrative method of Successional Dynamics provides a unifying conceptual framework for dynamic plant groups and makes use of a special long term facts set to discover the application of that framework. The fourteen chapters, each one written in a nontechnical sort and followed by means of a variety of illustrations and examples, disguise assorted facets of succession, together with: group, inhabitants and disturbance dynamics, variety, neighborhood meeting, heterogeneity, practical ecology and organic invasion. This exact textual content might be a very good resource of reference for researchers and graduate scholars in ecology and plant biology and others with an curiosity within the topic.